Introduction A tale of two fantasies
1. The phantom out of Oxford Street: Dickens's fairyland
2. The Martian on Primrose Hill: Wells's scientific romances
3. The bells of lost London: Orwell's and Peake's anti-fantasies
4. A pyramid of flesh on Villiers Street: New Worlds magazine and the Jerry Cornelius myth 5. 'My home, the city': Secondary-world London.